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The 1986 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 22 June 1986, to elect the 3rd Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. At stake were all 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 208 of 254 seats in the Senate. This was a snap election, since new elections were not due until late 1986. The election was held in a much less tense climate than the one that dominated the 1982 election, and this fact was reflected in the relatively low turnout: 70.5% from 80% four years before. No change of the party in government was expected, a situation which led to a quiet electoral campaign and a significant demobilization of the electorate. In March of the same year, the referendum on Spanish membership in NATO had resulted in a surprising win for the 'In' camp headed by Prime Minister Felipe González, after he had pledged to bring Spain out of NATO during the 1982 election campaign. As his Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) came out reinforced from the referendum victory and seeking to take advantage of the favorable political situation, González announced the election call roughly six months before the mandate of his government would expire. While the PSOE's performance was not in doubt, some commentators throughout the campaign questioned whether the PSOE would be able to maintain its majority government as a result of the wearing down experienced after the party's first four years in office, in which it had to break some election pledges and to adapt its economic policies to the current state of the Spanish economy. In the end, the PSOE won the election with 184 out of 350 seats, maintaining the absolute majority despite losing 18 seats from the spectacular 202 seat-majority it had enjoyed before the election. Its immediate competitor, Manuel Fraga's People's Coalition, an electoral alliance formed by People's Alliance (AP), the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Liberal Party (PL), remained stagnant with a similar result to the one obtained in 1982 by the AP-PDP coalition. The disappointing election results caused the Coalition to break apart shortly after the election, and contributed to Fraga's own resignation later in the year after AP was nearly wiped out in the November Basque regional election. Meanwhile, the Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) of former PM Adolfo Suárez virtually inherited the late UCD's electorate, adding it to its own and became the third political force in the country with nearly 1.9 million votes, 9% of the share and 19 seats. On the other hand, the Democratic Reformist Party (PRD), a major political, economic and marketing project nicknamed ''Operation Roca'' in honour to its prime ministerial candidate, Miquel Roca, with less than 200,000 votes and no seats, failed miserably in its self-imposed objective to become a relevant force in Spanish politics. Its referents in Catalonia and Galicia fared better, however, with Convergence and Union (CiU) greatly improving on its 1982 results and the Galician Coalition (CG), despite suffering a notable loss in support from the 1985 Galician regional election, still obtaining 1 seat in the Congress. The Communist Party of Spain (PCE) contested the election within the newly-born left-wing United Left (IU) coalition, slightly improving on the PCE's result in 1982 with 4.6% and 7 seats and holding its own against the Communists' Unity Board (MUC), Santiago Carrillo's split party founded after him being expelled from the PCE, which won no seats and a little more than 200,000 votes. ==Overview== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spanish general election, 1986」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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